EBS 2026학년도 수능특강 영어독해연습 2강
1 언어의 준규칙성
____ are able to speak and comprehend language with great skill despite its quasiregularity — indeed, because of it.
Communication requires shared knowledge, and so languages must ____ systematic rather than arbitrary.
However, the demands ____ comprehending and producing language require additional flexibility because speakers produce forms that deviate from standard patterns and listeners must be able to comprehend them.
Many shortcuts that promote fluent speech eventually enter the language, ____ as “gonna,” “hafta,” and “tryna,” which partially overlap with the source words.
The product of these conflicting pressures ____ quasiregularity.
These patterns can be mastered with extensive practice, which is easy to obtain if you’ve grown up speaking ____ language and become a fluent reader.
____ stress patterns is much harder for people learning English as a second language, who often exhibit “stress deafness.”
2 훌륭한 광고의 본질
We are able to speak and comprehend language with great skill despite its quasiregularity — indeed, ____ of it.
Communication requires shared knowledge, and so ____ must be systematic rather than arbitrary.
However, ____ demands of comprehending and producing language require additional flexibility because speakers produce forms that deviate from standard patterns and listeners must be able to comprehend them.
Many shortcuts that promote fluent speech eventually enter the language, such as ____ “hafta,” and “tryna,” which partially overlap with the source words.
The ____ of these conflicting pressures is quasiregularity.
These patterns can be mastered with extensive practice, which is easy to obtain if you’ve grown up speaking a language ____ become a fluent reader.
Mastering stress patterns is much ____ for people learning English as a second language, who often exhibit “stress deafness.”
3 지구의 에너지 사용에 대한 인간의 진화
Life on our planet can be arranged, more or less, into autotrophs and heterotrophs, organisms that exploit energy ____ the sun or chemical reactions, and organisms that take energy from those who’ve already captured it.
What is unusual about our species is that we’ve been able to use more and more energy without having to evolve ____ a different species.
We’ve achieved this through a combination of social learning, ____ culture, and technologies.
We don’t have to speciate to gain the claws of an allosaurus; we can share information to design a warhead or a ____ station.
In other words, we change our tools rather ____ our bodies.
Fire and spears did the trick for hundreds of ____ of years, until we devised the domestication of our food sources.
The next big shift came ____ the mechanisation of processes that gave us the Industrial Revolution.
This enabled us to draw ancient deposits of organic energy out of the Earth and burn ____
4 전 세계 미디어 기관이 직면한 어려움
Media institutions across the globe are ____ multiple crises: of funding, trust, representation, accountability and legitimacy.
In many of ____ countries that make up capitalism’s core, the newspaper and magazine industry is in serious decline as large digital intermediaries take over the majority of advertising revenue.
Much of the debate about the sustainability of the news industry circulates around ____ relating to this ‘broken business model’.
Local news ____ particular is increasingly under threat.
In ____ UK, the majority of the population (57.9%) is no longer served by a local daily newspaper.
To retain high levels of profitability, media corporations have closed or merged titles and cut jobs, often moving journalists long distances away from the communities they serve and no ____ being able to provide content of relevance to them.
In short, a profit-driven response means media ____ ever more unsustainable.
5 인간이 개입한 자연환경
The complexity of human intervention in nature means that the ecosystems have had ____ adapt — or in many cases die out.
Ancient woodland ____ only in small pieces in Britain now.
Many of ____ remnants are enclosed in nature reserves and national parks.
____ need specific protection. New habitats have been created with their own ecosystems.
The urbanization of the landscape and the creation of road and railway corridors have given us the garden habitats ____ many species thrive in.
Motorway roadsides with higher salt deposits support salt-loving plants otherwise found along ____ coast.
Roads ____ abundant road-kill for scavengers.
____ may be poor substitutes for what they replace, but they are habitats that can add more if properly managed.
The natural ____ we may seek to conserve is the natural environment we have in part created.
6 마음을 프로그램하는 주체들
For most of us, our minds have been programmed by a combination of ____ — our friends, our parents, the mass media, and advertisers.
Some of these agents of programming truly ____ you and have your best interests in mind as they reinforce your special strengths and help you overcome your troublesome weaknesses; they are trying to make you happier and make your life better.
Other agents of programming are trying to use you as a tool to achieve their goals, which are often very different from your ____ goals.
When this occurs, the programming makes you less and less happy as they “help” you solve problems ____ don’t have and make worse the problems you do have.
When you allow others to dominate the programming of your mind, then when your mind runs on ____ pilot, you end up behaving in ways that achieve the goals of those programmers rather than behaving in ways that would make you happier.
Therefore, it is important that ____ periodically examine the code that has been programmed into your mind.